Teddy Roosevelt: “There is no enemy of free government more dangerous and none so insidious as the corruption of the electorate.”

I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.